Hello Pros, I need a script by which I can track visitor’s traveling process . For Example, My site name is XYZ.com Visitor enter my site by finding link on dmoz.org and he finds dmoz.org by using google. Is it possible to track how visitor has traveled to my site. Like ‘A’ = Google>> Then ‘B’ = Dmoz >> At last ‘C’ = XYZ.com(Mysite) I want to Detect the ‘A’, Value of ‘B’ I am getting from $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']. Any one can help me for this. Regards
No, you cannot access that. It's impossible. There's a css trick to see if a user visited a specific page but you'd need to know the specific page. You cannot access the history apart from the referrer.
I am not getting this, can you give me any example of this css trick. I think, yes there is a specific page.
See http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-youve-been.html - you can probably find more info by searching for css history hack in google.
May be you would want to modify the script that pulls bank account information to get the browser history instead.
See don't take me wrong, I am not that savvy programmer. I am just giving a logical thought because companies like compete.com are working on similar concept. Probably at this point of time it don't seems logical but I was just checking an option.
If compete.com does it, it's probably via a toolbar. Browsers simply do not allow this, as said before it would be disastrous for privacy and security reasons.
In fact, as premiumscripts said, compete.com and Alexa collect data from toolbars installed on end-users browser. Those toolbars track user behaviour and send resulting data to their database.